Word: gladdings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...District of Columbia last week. He lost in Alabama to George Wallace, partly because he did not try hard for a victory on Wallace's own turf. In fact Carter staffers viewed the defeat as sowing long-term benefits. Explained one of them: "I'm glad we didn't do any better. I didn't want us to rub Wallace's nose in the dirt. We may need him at the convention." Wallace insisted that he will not help Carter get the nomination, but if he wins it, "I could support Mr. Carter...
...Manhattan theatergoers who are flinging themselves with glad abandon upon the recent hit revivals of My Fair Lady and Threepenny Opera think they are seeing the rebirth of the nation's longest-running musicals, they are wrong. The record is held by an unprepossessing little Off-Broadway show called The Fantasticks, and it does not need to be reborn for the simple reason that it never died...
...before Kissinger's speech that "the war has already begun." Echoing that sentiment, Kaunda urged that Kissinger's program be "worked upon as quickly as possible, because in terms of time we do not have it." In response, Kissinger made it clear that the U.S. would be glad to act as a mediator in negotiations between black liberationists and the Rhodesian government...
...glad if a student does this and tells us," Riesman said, "but if a student does this and does not inform us ahead of time, I'm in favor of severe action--expulsion...
...delightful last scene of Henry V, Henry Plantagenet asks for the hand of Katherine of France, speaking partly in fractured French while she answers in broken English. In amused frustration Henry says: "I" faith, Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding. I am glad thou canst speak no better English, for, if thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my crown...